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Wales waste lead as Harris rescues Australia

With 40 seconds left to play, Wales committed the cardinal sin of kicking the ball away. A minute and a half and two penalties later, after the hooter had sounded, victory had somehow turned to defeat.

A ninth and final change of lead left Mike Harris the hero and Rhys Priestland the villain. It was a kick from the Scarlets fly-half that broke the pattern of play that should have seen Wales to a famous win.

Instead, having offered the second best team in the world the chance to show why they are ranked so high, Wales had to chew over another near miss. If the defeats to South Africa and France at the World Cup were hard to take, this was possibly even more gut-wrenching.

Having defended magnificently, and outscored their hosts by two tries to one, the accurate Leigh Halfpenny had given Wales the